Why Johnny Can’t Read – Rudolf Flesch

Metaphors We Live By – Lakoff & Johnson

A Room of Their Own – Mary Wollstonecraft

Son of a Witch – Greg Maguire

The Bluest Eyes – Toni Morrison

Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone – Fleischer & Andrew

Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan

Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings – Bernard Mandeville

Nights in Rodanthe – Nicholas Sparks

When and Where I Enter – Paula Giddings

Orientalism – Edward Said (I’ve only read excerpts…)

The Dignity of Working Men – Michele Lamont

The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory

Me: Stories of My Life – Katharine Hepburn

Aeneid – Translated by John Dryden, I have a copy 🙂

Blaze – Steven King writing as Richard Bachman

Bel Canto – Ann Patchett

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative – Mieke Bal

The Rhetoric of Religion – Kenneth Burke

There’s more, but I have to get moving, I have more to-do lists.

 

 

5 responses to “Reading List: to-do”

  1. Derek Avatar

    Are any of these tied to coursework, Dawn? We read Lakoff and Johnson last semester in ENGL505: Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and we’re likely to pick it up again in that class in the fall, for what it’s worth.

  2. truebloodcreator Avatar

    Professor,
    I’m not certain if they’re on your syllabus, but I’m sure a few would tie into our coursework. It’s basically a list of theorists that I would like to read more of, and several other texts in which I have accumulated over the past few years. They’re my summer reading list, but I need to find a very extended summer to get started on them. I’ve been plugging away at a few, or as many as I can read in three months. Books manage to evoke the same thrill as shoes and bags do for me….I need a closet for shoes, bags, and books. I also need more reading time, but I suppose like most things we tend to desire: everything in moderation.

  3. joetorok Avatar

    Metaphors We Live By was/is an incredibly enriching book for me. I first encountered it in a comparative religion class as an undergrad and have found conceptual metaphor theory applicable to so many of my intellectual interests. (In a similar vein, I also found Stewart Guthrie’s Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion enriching as well.)

    1. truebloodcreator Avatar

      Thanks for the feedback Joe! I’m really looking forward to finding the time to get to these texts.

  4. Derek Avatar

    I just received a copy of a book on metaphor by James Geary, I Is An Other. I assume Harper Collins saw I’d been teaching Metaphors We Live By and sent me a complimentary copy of the Geary book. I haven’t had time to look at it much beyond the index, but from what I’ve seen it looks promising.

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